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. 2022 May 15;92(2):169–176. doi: 10.1134/S1019331622020010

Table 4.

Key alphabet performance indicators in 2020*

Alphabet Number of alphabet users, mln people Share, %
Latin 3159.5 40.2
Indic scripts (all) 1774.3 22.6
Hieroglyphs 1617.3 20.6
Arabic 745.8 9.5
Cyrillic 255.8 3.3
Abugida (Ge’ez script) 125.6 1.6
Hangul/Chosongul (Korean script) 78.5 1.0
Others (Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, etc.) 94.2 1.2
Total 7851.0 100.0

*According to the author.